"V THE ' PITTSBTJEG,,r- DISPATCH, TtiESD&Y, r JUNE 28, ' 189't R5JSEWS llfoepfrt ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY ISM. Vol. 45, No. 133. Entered at Pittsburg PostoGlce, , November 14, 1S37, as second-class matter. . Business OfSce Corner SmilhfieldJ and Diamond Streets. News -Rooms and PqblishingrHousej 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. TASTERX ADVERTISING OFFICE, BOOM a. f TKIliUEHUII.DlSU, fc lUltli. nucicoim- nlctc files of THE DISPATCH can always beund. v,.. 1- r.FHurc .nnnutp the convenience. Home advertisers and Mends of THE DISPATCH, J while In New-York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATCH ttrtsridarivonSaleatSrentano r vman dqvttiTT. iwe at, vt . -, - - ijn. frano, when anvune Kfip has peen pointed at a hotel wits stand can obtain it. 'Opera awnp- W TKEMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAGE FEEE IN TUB TOTTED STATES. DArLT Dispatch, One iYear ? S CO Dailt Dippatcii, Per Quarter.... 2 00 Dailt DisrATCn, One Month TO Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 Dailt Dispatch. Including Sunday, 3 m'tlis. 2 60 Dailt "Dispatch, Including Sunday, 1 m'th.. 90 fcCKDAT Dispatch, One Year. S60 Weekly Dispatch, One Year 1 3 The Daili Dispatch Is delivered hy carriers at II cent per -week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at SO cents per weet. PITTSBURG, TUESDAY, JUNE 23,1891. CONSOLIDATION OF COMMUNITIES. The project to unite Minneapolis and St Paul under a single municipality arouses some sarcastic comments from Eastern journals. Nevertheless it is clearly the course which an ambitious and pro gressive community like that making up the population of the two cities would pursue. The cities are closely adjacent, identical in interests, and their common progress will be best subserved by uniting under a single government "With consoli dation the energy now spent in jealousies and quarrels will be directed toward their mutual progress. The thinly-settled space between them would be quickly filled up by manufactories and residences, and the united city would take its proper rank as one of the leading centers of trade and enterprise in the country. The gain of such a consolidation to the Northwestern cities has an especial interest here, because the arguments in its favor .lpply with even greater force to Pittsburg. The group of boroughs and cities extend ing from McKeesport to Emsworth is more closely adjacent and identical in in terest than any other separate municipal ities in the country. United they would appear before the country as a city approx imating the half-million mark; and, even n the most difficult aspect of the problem, .; may be believed that a city government representing that entire population.could be made to take a broader and higher pol icy than the governments that represent the smaller divisions. It is another interesting point that if St Paul andMinneapolis consolidate first, they will stand far above Pittsburg in popula tion, and will .take rank among the eight leading cities of the land; while if Pitts burg united its population under one. com munity it will be the fifth city of the Union. DWINDLING POPULATION. The habit of regarding our country as constantly growing, and the great expan sion i Inch has actually taken place as a whole, makes it less easy to realize that there are large sections of territory in which there has been a steady diminution of population during the last ten and in some cases twenty years. The largest of these comprises an area of 58,000 square miles, or more than one-third larger than the area of Pennsylvania, and lies as far west as the junction of Illinois, Iowa and "Wisconsin, in which every county outside the cities has lost Another section nearly as large lies along the Ohio river, com mencing near the Ohio and Indiana State line, and stretching across 'Western Ken tucky and Tennessee. The northern half of New England from Maine across New Hampshire and Vermont to Northern New York reveals the same story, while the tidewater half of Virginia and the section of New Tork, Pennsylvania and New Jersey lying at the headwaters of the Del aware are smaller areas, where there has been the same diminution of population. The probability is that a variety of causes contributes to these phenomena, Unfertility or exhaustion of agricultural land is a prominent cause in two instances; although it would seem that the proximity ot water transportation ought to make it more economical to enrich the lands than to carry the products of "Western farms half way across the continent That a protective tariff is not the cause is shown by the fact that the loss frequently ap pears in sections close to the manufactur ing industries, while growth has been the rule in sections remote from the interests stimulated by .protection. The railroad policy, either by discriminating against the sections where population is dwindling or in smothering water transportation, ap pears to a greater or less degree in nearly all such cases. It is certainly a feature which deserves grave consideration that large sections of country are steadily losing the population which is at the foundation of all our in dustries. It indicates an error of policy somewhere. If the matter is thoroughly investigated the errors of our transporta tion system will be found, more than any other one cause, to contribute toward this undesirable result A K13IAKKABLE "VIEW. A singular indication of the taeasure of intelligence brought to the discussion of economic subjects is presented by two Pennsylvania papers. The Scrantonifc jmblican refers to "the consolidation plans and monopolistic tendencies of the. Pro ducers' Protective Association," and the Harrisburg Telegraph speaks in like vein, iith a sarcastic assertion that, "what is perfectly reprehensible in the Standard is perfectly proper in J. "W. Lee, Lew Emery and others. But you cannot make people outside of the oil regions be lieve it" Probably not, if they are as obviously determined to prejudge the case in favor of immense wealth as these two journals. .But people who take any pains to judge them as it is may be able to see what these leaders of public opinion ignore that the character of commercial organization is determined by its purpose and effect 'The policy and success of m the Standard has been in crushing out competition, and its immense wealth represents the triumph of its edict tlfat no one but itself shall dare to engage in the refining and distribution of petroleum. The producers' organiza tion is simply for the purpose of establish ing competition in an industry which under our laws ought to be equally open to every man. No possibility exists of its driving the Standard out of the field and establishing a monopoly in its stead. One organization stands up for competition; tlio other represents monopoly and the profits of that privilege concentrated in the hands of a favored few. It would be uncharitable to accuse these papers of wilfully misrepresenting facts in the interests of" the Standard. Burthe charitable view leads us to "wonder at the decree of intelligence which can discover no difference between combination toes- tablish competition in a legitimate indus- s try and combination to suppress it NATIONAL BANK SAFEGUAKDS. There is a great deal of food for public 'Instruction in the facts with regard to national bank failures of recent years. They are that every national bank that has been wrecked or plundered of late has ibeen wrecked or plundered by its execu tive manager; that in most cases the direc- 'tors were figure heads; that there is no in stance wnere uie roDoery wuuiu unio taken place if the directors had performed their duties actively, and, finally, that all these wrecks would have been impossible if the national banking law had been scrupulously enforced. These facts, which are-the history of the bank failures of the past decade, place the responsibility -clearly where.it belongs. In the first place it is the duty of directors to direct Apart from their legal responsi bilities they cannot afford to incur the risk of being made figureheads for wholesale plunder. Next, it is the duty of the Gov ernment to make its supervision active and thorough. If either incapacity or favorit ism creeps into the enforcement of the law the strength and stability of the financial institutions of the countryare weakened by the vices of our politics. The same facts show the necessity of keeping the legal requirements with re gard to the national banks up to the high est standard. We need not discuss the re markable reasoning by which the United States Supreme Court in the Buffalo case held that directors are not responsible for the loss of assets through their negligence. That decision fixes the law for the pres ent, but an intelligent perception of the importance of the subject should inspire an amendment at the next session placing the duties and responsibilities of directors beyond question. "With the national banking system kept up to its true standard, it is one of the best safeguards of the solvency and sta bility of the business interests. That is in itself sufficient evidence that the adminis tration of the law and the management of the banks should jiot be permitted to fall off into weakness and recklessness. A TtATHEK RIGID POLICY. The Governor's veto lightning has struck a Pittsburg institution in a way that causes people interested in other measures to re gard the outlook as rather unpromising. The Governor's logic in the veto of the West Perm Hospital appropriation is unim peachable if looked at solely apart from sentiment An institution supported in part by State funds may by the rules of executive policy be expected to keep its expenditures within its income, or at least to refrain from calling upon the State to make up the deficiency. But on the other side there is no doubt that the case is one where the strict and passionless rules might be stretched a lit tie. There is no question that the institu tion is a deserving one. Its use of the State funds brings relief to the suffering, and its present deficiency is caused by work in that direction. No breath of sus picion exists that the money thus appro priated will be unworthily used. With such a situation in the case of a public in stitution before him, the Governor could not have been blamed if he had enlarged his strict principles of action sufficiently to permit the hospital to be relieved from its present burden. At the same time the Governor cannot be blamed for a rigid adherence to the rule he states in his veto of this appropriation. But if he is so unyielding In the case o.f a hospital, It makes the outlook very un promising for some measures still under his scrutiny, and which must rely mainly on the circumstances of hardship which they are intended to relieve. A FIAT PROFIT. In discussing the silver question, or one of its numerous phases, the New York Commercial Advertiser gives utterance to an Idea which finds general acceptance even in financial circles. It refers to the profit or seignorage which the Government makes by coining a given value of silver bullion into a nominally greater amount of dollars, and thence proceeds to say: During the last administration the average seignorage profit upon the coinage of silver was $S,000,000 a year. Secretary Foster does not wish to see this source of revenue cut "off. It may be no. proposes to increase It. The law of 1890 compels the purchase of 51,000,000 ouncci of silver a year. At the present market price this would cost $53,000, 000. If coined it would make 70,000,000 silver dollars. Certificates for this amount would be added to the currency, and seignorage profits of $17,000,000 a year would be paid into the Treasury, involving no taxation of the people. This idea that a profit accrues to the Treasury by taking 53,000,000 worth of silver and stamping It $70,000,000 is very often met with in quarters which have no sympathy with the fiat money idea. Yet its only foundation is on the fiat money theory. It is true that -the Government makes its silver dollars circulate at par with gold dollars. So it does its paper dollars, and for the same reason that it makes them exchangeable into gold. No one ever thinks of saying that the Govern ment makes a profit or seignorage .of 599,995,000 by printing $100,000,000 of greenbacks at a cost of say $25,000, and making them circulate at par with gold. Yet the claim would be just as valid in one case as in the other. The fact is that the profit so often re ferred to is only a temporary and apparent one. The Government makes it for the time being by promising to pay it back to the holders of the coin. If the time should come when the Treasury cannot maintain that promise, or, in other words, resorts to silver payments, the seignorage would dis appear on the silver eoin held in the Treas ury, and the holders of the silver dollars outside the Treasury would lose exactly what the Treasury had previously gained by the difference between the bullion value of a silver dollar and its acquired parity with gold. The new electric cars on the Birmingham .road have started in with positive enthu siasm. Between the clang of the bolls and the roar of the electricity, people walking or doing business on Smithfield street have only to close their eyes and they will fancy when the Birmingham cars are passing that they are listening to some of the most tre mendous crescendo passages of "Wagner's operas. This is all right, perhaps, as a sort of formal inauguration a Joyous proclama tion that the day of horse-draught is gone forever on the Birmingham line. Bat "when the novelty is worn off, it may gently be suggested to the company's engineers that if the operation of the road were pitched in a lower key there would be great relief for the public ear and nerves. The ex-Empress Eugenie has no faith in the future of Bonapartism, and says: "The Empire died with my son." The conclusion is-eminently correct, but there is a mistake in her assertion concerning tho date of its death. The Empire was completely wiped out at Sedan; and the Intolerant ambltionof Eugenie Is credited with having Drought on. the war, which produced that disaster. It is asserted as upsetting the received notions of the conditions of England's poorer classes that the last census shows a decrease in pauperism. The number of paupers is 20,000 less in Great Britain than ten years ago, while the increase in population makes the proportion of pauperism still lower. This looks creditable to Englnndion the sur face; but before making it thoiground for final conclusions, it would be well to havo direct proof that it is due to more prosperity among the laborers, and not to the English policy of shipping the paupers to more pros perous and unwary countries. Senator Plumb is now regarded as the Republican champion. It is a strango illus tration of the irony of fate that Flumb was read out of the Republican party for a little plain talk, nearly a year before Ingalls finished the Farmers' Alliance work by kicking himself out. ButPlumb is nowthe 'hope of the organs, while Ingalls is a -po litical outlaw. The demand of a boodle alderman in New York for back salary during the time he was sojourning in Canada is tolerably cheeky; but it does not rival the demand of ono of his brother aldermen for his share of the Broadway steal. "Why should noJS the manhac his salary when New York has pianly pronounced against any prosecution of the public thieves? The real stroke of genius will bo reached when these heroes of practical politics she for malicious inter ference with their business by raising the row over the Broadw ay Railroad steaL It is sad to learn that the Governor's veto of Senator Jack Robinson's committee's ex penses leaves the hotelkeepors and not tho committee inthelurch. Thismaystrengthen the tendency of landlords, recently exem plified in this city, to demand pay in ad vance from legislators who try their hospi tality. Some comment is evoked by the fact that President Barillas of Guatemala' has pocketed $3,000,000 of the proceeds of a $6,000,000 loan. Yet this is what is understood to be the regular thing in Central American politics. The late President Barrios had some $10,000,000 snugly salted down in New York. He did not get awaj-to enjoy it; but it is understood that his interesting widow is enjoying it for both. People who object to that sort of thing are the impracticable Mugwumps who do not understand Central American politics. It is sad to learn that the Western "agree ment among gentlemen"' is going to pieces. It will cause another outburst of argument from the railway gentlemen to prove the necessity of their being restrained by law from ruining their properties. The construction of a 125-ton gun is planned at Watervlict Arsenal, which at once arouses the protest that cannon of that size have been proved by experience to be unwioldly, expensive, short-lived and use less. Rather than rely on such costly ord nance, which can only be fired a few score times, it may be found more economical for this country to stick to tho policy of treat ing all nations with such fairness as to make quarrels impossible. It is interesting but cheeky for the New York Advertiser to get out a sixteen-page Sunday edition and a very readable one at that and.then turn up its nose at its cotem poraries as "Jumboninn journals." A New York cotemDorary warns the European governments that they "will find .it to their highest advantage to keep out of troublo by letting Haiti alone," and reverts to the Monroe doctrine as the obstacle to their interference. Very well; but if the Monroe doctrine is practiced by the United States in the way of setting up bloodthirsty tyrants in exchange for coaling stations and then getting cheated out of them that politi cal principle will be in grave danger of a wasting illness. The question who is King of Samoa seems to be as insoluable as who is Governor of Connecticut? Has practical politics got its grip on that once peaceful Pacific group? The considerations surrounding the milk supply are various. A New Orleans milkman who has been fined for watering his milk protests ithat water In the milk is necessary in that warm city to prevent it from churning during transportation over the streets. New Orleans milk must be many times richer than the Northern variety, of which the cream only will churn, and some of what is alleged to be cream requires steam power to convert it into butter. The Atlantic City Councilman whose in dignant constituents rolled him in a bed of mortar is probably in a positiou to express a preference for whitewash. A VERY praiseworthy though perhaps arduous attempt is made to show that Lady Brooke is a much misunderstood, but very proper beauty. At the same time a writer comes outwith a defenso of the character of Lady Hamilton. The public will always bo glad to have reasons for thinking well of beauteous females, but sometimes the effort of -faith is a little too strong for poor human ity. . PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE. Eugene Aram's great grandson is a law yer in Alameda, Cat, and has Just been ad mitted to practice in the State Supreme Court. Jay Cooke has gone with his entire household to tho Adrrondacks. A Pullman car was chartered for the convenience of the 20 tourists. HEiNRicn ScHMiLrifSKl, a Hamburg millionaire, has decided to leave his fortune to the city for the erection of an asylum for unmarried women. Sis Charles Russell, counsel for de defendants in the baccarat case, has a sister in San Francisco who is mother superior of tho Order Sisters of Mercy at the St. Mary's Hospital in that city. Her collection of costumes, photographs and armor will bo Mrs. James Brown Pot ter's chief trophy when" she returns kome to New York from her variegated wanderings In India, Australia, Ceylon and Japan. Justin McCarthy the younger, who is doing such brilliant work in literature, is only SO years old, and yet has published 11 books and 7 plays. In personal appearance he is tall and thin, and has a noticeably small head. Prof. Lazarus "Rodney, London, is said to give in a course of IS lecturossnch an insight into tho arts and mysteries of beg ging in all its phases that his graduates are assured of an easy living at the expense of tho benevolent. Snt William Gordon Cummino's favorite beverage in the field is brandy and soda, huge tumblers of which he used to sip in the evening- Sir "William was present at the death of Captain Burnaby, the heroic soldier and traveler, and -with his sword cut down ono of Burnaby 'B fiercest assailants. Count Joseph Lehat's present of a marblo statue of Leo XIII. (executed in Italy by Luchetti) is about ready for ship ment to the Catholic University in Washing ton. It represents the Pope in the rich robes of his office and crowned with his tiara, his right hand held out as If extending a blessing. Browning once said of Disraeli: "He is the greatest liar living." But Mr. Glad stone put a more charitable construction upon his rival's conduct, and said: "I don't agree with you, Mr. Browning, that Lord Beaconsflold is a deliberate liar. Certainly he does not always speak the exact truth. Ho will take extraordinary liberties with facts when he could have no object In doing so, but, on the contrary, runs a risk of dam aging hinuelf." Presented With a Purse, Rev. O. P. Gallagher, of St. John's Catholic Church, South Fourteenth street, was pre sented on Saturday evening with a purse of $800 by his congregation, as a mark of their esteem for him. He will leave for a trip to Europe on next Saturday. CURB AND CORRIDOR. Prohibition In Cincinnati No Bribery for Him Bait Beat the Fish A Carload of Cranks Dnquesne Theater "Will Not Be Sold Stories of the Bay In Town. "Cihcihjjati is not exactly the placo for a man to choose as a temperance f esort," said Horace Graves, a traveling man, at the Seventh Avenue hotel yesterday, "but a friend of mine found it worked pretty well in that line for him a week or two ago. Tho fact is ho traveled a little too, fast when he wds in Pittsburg the last time, and I guess the water didn't agree with him, or it may have been the weather, or just possibly the bper. Anyhow when he took the night train for Cincinnati he had a large bead, and the prospect of a ride in tho close sleeping car would havo been bad enough by itself, but at the end of it ho knew he was pledged to meet his best girl the day after his arrival. The next morning brought more remorse, and more headache the two hunt in pairs; and the only solace my suffering friend had in view was tho cool.refreshing cocktails that he knew he could find at a favorite dispen sary in Cincinnati. His mouth was fairly watering at thought of the reviving draughts in store when the train drew into the depot at Cincinnati. Imagine, then, his disap pointment when the first thing he heard us I10 stepped off the car was: 'Oh! how are you George? You've got to come right home with us!' and there before him stood his fiancee and her mother. All the visions of cocktails galore vanished; his head throbbed with extra vlciousness, and his tongue was so dry ho could hardly speak. But speech less or not he had to keep in the path of virtue, and he enjoyed prohibition in its fullest sense all the time lie was in Cincin nati." His Idea of a Bribe. "One time Judgo Gcddes, the popular Democratic member of Congress, was mak ing a round of calls upon his constituents," said an Ohio man to mo j esterday. "and, among others, he visited an old farmer In Ashland county who was a rellablo friend of his. The farmer and Judgo Geddes were strolling about tho farm . when they came upon a farmhand and the farmer addressed him with: "Rube, you must bo sure to vote for tho Judgo next month." The man who was hoeing corn looked up at Judge Geddis and said: "Wal, fact is, Jedge, I'm fer sale." "I'm not buying votes haven't any money to spend," said tho Judge with a laugh. "Who said anythin' 'bout buyin'?" asked Rube; "yer can't buy me I don't want no money a gallon o' whisky's 'bout my size!" The Bait Was Superb. "Wheneveii anyone about the Court House has a good fish story theso .days he is pretty ,suro to fire it at District -Attorney Diek Johnston. This is one of the results of Mr. Johnston's prodigious performances in Elk county this spring with a fishing pole. An attorney the other day hailed the District Attorney with: "Say, Dick, I had nn im mense time last week trout fishing never Jiad such a good time." "What was your catch?" asked Mr. John ston. . "Didn't get a fish but six of our party had mania potu!" was the reply. Cranks on tho Cars. The Pittsburg and Lake Erie train coming in from Youngstown on Saturday night had move than a fair share of cranks on board. Just after the train left Youngstown a young man, who had been filling up too enthusias tically on liquor that inebriates, took it into his head to lie downatfull length in the seat and put his feet out of tho window. Mr. Blackford, tho energetic representative of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie at Newcastle, observing tho young man's danger, humanely cautioned him, and for his pains was told by the bibulous youth to goto a warm place not on any railroad map. "They're my feet and it's my business to look after them," added the youth but ho drew in his feet and-went to sleep. The car was choke-full of benevolent people, and an old man who noticed that a big. roll of bills was sticking out of the sleeping youth's vest pocket, tapped the latteron the shoulder and warned him that he ran the risk of losing his money. Tho dismteiesteu. auviser got a cursing too. The next excitement was afforded by an old fellow with more or less hayseed in his hair, and a chin tuft that made him resem ble a caricature of Uncle Sam, who insisted on sticking his head out of the window and looking back at the end of tho train. The train was running along beneath the rocky cliffs that, with the Ohio on the other side, fenco in the Pittsburg and Lake Erie tracks from Philllpsburg for miles eastward. The other passengers fully: expected to see the old man's head split by some projecting rock, for the train was running very fast and swaying a good deal. Mr. Blackford again came to the rescue. He took his um brella, and while the old man was craning his neck over tho window sill, gave IiIb skull a gentle Jab, and withdrew the umbrella with all possible dispatch. The old man drow in his head as if he had been an alarmed turtle and howled: "I'm a dead man! I've been struck!" But he soon forgot his experience and out went his head again. This time Mr. Black ford was not so merciful, for ho took his um brella by the ferrule and dealt the old man a sharp crack with the handle, a gnarled one with metal knobs. The passengers couldn't restrain their laughter, and tho old man per ceived that he had been the victim of a joke. To get even he pulled out a pint flask of whisky, saying: "You shan't get a drop!" His wfli was better than the deed, for the car gave a sudden lurch at that moment, and evory drop of the whisky flew out on the floor and neighboring passengers. Boasted Theatricals In New York. "Theatricals in New York are feeling the effect of extremely hot weather," said Man ager Harry Williams yesterday. "I've just come back from Now York and last week's weather was the hottest I've ever met there. The business some of tho New York theaters are doing is frightfully thin. One night when I was In the Madison Square Theater, where 'The Merchant' is being done, there were only eight people in the balcony, and the patronage of the comic operas at the Broadway and Palmer's is not enough to be profitable. All tho same the 'Tar and the Tartar' and 'Wang' are both clever pieces, 'and tho mounting of the latter, in which De "Wolf Hopper is the star, is particularly gorgeous. New York theatrical people 'are wondering what Pittsburg is going to do with so many theaters, and they seem to think that it will result in the attractions getting decldodlythe best of tho local man agers." Dnqnesne Theater Not for Sale. A ktook was current yesterday in theatri cal circles to tho effect that Managers Hen derson and Morton were about to sell tho Duquesno Theater. Mr. McCullough, the acting manager of the Duquesne, denied the report with emphasis, saying: "Such a story is not only false but ridiculous, and has its origin in the imagination of somo jealous donkey. The managers of tho Duquesno Theater are not such fools as to sell out when they havo such a chance to coin money as next season's excellent bookings promise to give them. Mr. Henderson's new spectacular production, 'Sinbad,' is playing to crowded nouses in Chicago in spite of tho hot weather. Somo new machinery, steam colls for heat ing, and other improvements will soon be set up in the Duquesne." DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. John Henry Reginald Scott, fourth Earl or ClonmeL, died at Loudon yesterday. The Earl of Clonnicl was born In 1839, and was elected a repre sentative peerfor Ireland in 1S7-L Mas. Jane Dctp died at her home in Moravia, late Sunday night, aged 99 years. The deceased was the oldest person In Lawrence county. She was born la Beaver county In 1792, and has resided all her ure within 30 jnlfcs or New CasUe. Mrs. Dun" was very weU known by all the old settlers, tahe leares four sons and two daughters. Ehin. GeN. Albert G. Blanchabd died Sun day evening. ' He was born In Charleston, Mass., in 1S10, and entered West Point at the age of 15. He irradnated In 1S29, In the class with Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston. In 1840 he left the army to enter commercial life in Now Orleans. He was in the CIvU "War, where he served as an officer of the First Louisiana Confederate Regiment. Alexander Fleming, one of the old-time resi dents along the Yough, died Sunday in his 76th year. He was the father of George Fleming, who operates tho Flemingstone quarries, which are located at Dcadman's Tlollow.where the McConkcy gang murdered McClure, and where George Flem ing was shot in the leg by oneof the gang when a crund of citizens were trying to capture the gang. A Good Play Well Bendered. '"Only a Tanner's' Daughter," a domestto drama by Elliott Barnes, received its initial performance at Harris' Theater jestorday afternoon. A pleasing incident was tho presentation of a life-like doll to Little Grade, an exceptionally clever child actress, it being her birthday. Miss Josie Woodruff, as Justine, Miss Nathalie Churchill as the ad venturess and W. R. Walters as Jack llartly deserve special mention. The specialties of Miss Sargent and Mr. Bobinson were met with considerable favor, and this capable company, in a Btrong play, will doubtless meet with remunerative houses this week. M0UBNING IK "WABHINOTOK. The Death of Ex-Senator McDonald Re gretted at the National Capital. FKOM X STAFF CORRESPONDENT. "Washington, June 22. Tho death of ex Senator McDonald, of Indiana, was not known hero generally until this morning, when the expression's of regret were heart felt and universal. "Joe" McDonald, as he was familiarly called, was the senior mom ber of the most prominent law firm in this city.the firm of McDonald, Bright A Fay, the second member in rank being "Dick" Bright, formerly Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate. Each member of the firm was so popular per sonally as to make them exceptional and public characters as much as the highest offi cials of the GovQrnment. . To Fay and Bright the loss of the head of their firm comes like a death in their own families, and tho public expression of grief is as though the genial old Senator had been one Qf the chief figures of the Government. Had factional politics taken a different turn in Indiana, McDonald would undoubt edly at one time have been the nominee of the Democrats for President. Mr. John Fav, the Junior member of the firm, has a great reputation as a successful prosecutor of im portant claims before Congress and the Court of Claims, and the death of his emi nent partner will probably result In tho re organization of the firm in a manner which will place Mr. Fay in a conspicuous position before the Government, to which his talents and success have long entitled him. THE HOST PHENOMENAL. A Flattering Testimonial Which Came Without the Least Solicitation. Greensburg (Pa.) Argus. The success of The PiTT3Binto Dispatch, one of the leadingjoumals of the age, is most phenomenal. Each recurring year adds to its worth as a newspaper and to its value as a business enterprise. The crowning feature of The Disr-ATcn proprietors is the recent in-. troduction of two mammoth Hoo presses of the latest improved pattern, and capable of printing the enormous edition of the Dis patch in an hour. Its average dally edition, it may bo here stated, is over 31,000. The plant is one of the largest and most com plete in the United States, and the new and handsome structure recently erected by the company at Smithfield and Diamond streets, is an ornament to tho city. The ability shown in its editorial columns, the perfect and comprehensive system of news-gathering it has adopted, the fairness and frank ness with which it treats all individuals and issues,.certainly entitle it to all the favor it has won from the public. Its past success has not been more marked than it has de served. It is indeed a paper to be proud of. THE CHEROKEE COMMISSION. The Efforts to Effect an Agreement Are Again a Failure. Oklahoma City, June 22. The Cherokee Commission returned here yesterday after spending ten days negotiating with the Kickapoo Indians, who occupy an Executive order reservation, adjacent to jDklahoma on the east, and surrounded on nil sides by Indians who have taken lands in severalty. When the commission visited the Kicka poos last summer they refused to listen to any proposition, and while respectful this year, they still emphatically refuse to agree to any proposition providing for the open ing of the reservation, and offered as a rea son that they feared the wrath of the great spirit, who would certainly bo angered by such nction. Since this is the third time this commission has visited this tribe with out effecting a settlement, it is-likely that the President will soon order tho Indians to take allotments under the Downs bill. The commission will adjourn for the summer and return to the Territory in September to resumo work. IT ACTS BY "WHAT EIGHT. Quo Warranto Proceedings Against a Live Stock Exchange. Chicago, June 22. Attorney General Hunt this afternoon began quo warranto proceed ings against the Chicago Live Stock Ex change. Ho sets forth that the act under which the company was organized restricts it from doing business for pecuniary profit, and that its legitimate objects are to adjust' business disputes, guard against tho sale of unwholesomo meat, etc. v The Attorney General alleges that the company Is trying to fix tho minimum rate of sale on the yards market, and to prohibit its 'members from purchasing stock from any person not a member of the Exchange. In the name of the people, tho Attorney General asks tho company to show by what legal right it is acting. THEY C0TJSTED BY TELEPHONE. The Marriage That Followed a Tale of Love Sent Over the Wire. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Albany, June 22. A Juno wedding to-day in a cozy homo in Madison avenue was the sequel to a story of love over the telephone wire. It was the marriage of Bufus King Townsend, whose family and friends are all of Albany's social 400, to Miss Ida Jerome Willey, who, up to a short time ago, w orked in tho central office of the Hudson Elver Tel ephone Company. Among the guests at the wedding were General Franklin Townsend, who was ad jutant General of the StateofNew Yorkin war times; Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Townsend, General Frederick Townsend, who has also been Adjutant General of the State, and the tho members of his family. COMMENCEMENT AT YALE. It Opens With a Very Large Attendance of Friends of the Students. New Haven, Conn., June 22. The com mencement exercises at Yale opened to-day, and train after train brought friends of tho graduates and alumni, who are to attend the various class reunions, to the city. The ex ercises this morning consisted of the de livery of tho class oration and the reading of the class poem in the chapel. The class historians were: Ashbel Green, Jr., of New York City; Thomas IL Guy, of Troy, N. Y.; Joseph R. Herod, of Indianapolis; John B. Soars, of Chicago, and Harry W. Tweedy, of Blnghamton, N. Y. f SNAP SHOTS IK SEASON. The jollv dog does not have to be 'licensed, but he frequently pay8 a fine. June showers make July bowers. When the wbale-bacjr. barge shoots the rapids of the St. Lawrence and reaches tho Atlantic the sea monster fakirs willbe heard from. A summer hotel at the base of Green land's icjynountalns would undoubtedly be well patronized. The cry of the melon vender will soon be heard in the Northland. If the rains do not cease the June rise will put on flood airs. Theee is no law against keeping the wharves clean or making them attractive. Competition is tire life of trade or the death of one of tile competitors. The first half holiday Was scarcely half observed. A misfit gives the fashionable Miss a fit. Dkygoods merchants are lucky. They can make money on waist goods. The Itata should be added to the sideshow end of the World's Fair; A scientist declares that monkeys can talk. If a few could be captured in Darkest Africa the world would secuie tho secrets of Stanley's rear guard. Those in the fast set are rather loose in their habits. TJnelfishness is the corner stone of Christianity, and tho sooner tho churches find it out the better. t Bank vaults have time locks, but they have to be watched also. If you laugh in life's face trouble- will keep Its distance. CARE OF THE INSANE. The Bill for a 8500,000 Hospital for Chronic Cases Approved by Pattison Seven Other Bleaanres "Vetoed by Him The In digent Insane BUI Killed. SPECIAL TELF.OBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Harhisburo, June 22,--Governor Pattison was not until recently favorably impressed with the bill-appropriating $500,000 for the selection of a site for and the erection of a hospital for tho accommodation of the chronic insane, because ho was not con vinced that there wns a necessity for the in stitution. In order to thoroughly inform himself as to the need for it, ho addressed communications to the authorities of tho various State lunatic asylums, and from them the uniform reply came that the insti tutions over which they had control wero crowded with inmates. In view of this in formation, and the fact thnj the bill appro priating $190,000 for the payment of counties and cities for tho caro or indigent insane in their almshouses did not commend itself to him, he concluded to approve the chronic insane act, and life was bieathed into it to-day. The Indigent Insane BUI Vetoed. The indigent insane bill was subjected to a veto for tho follow ing reasons: . "The policy which it contemplates Is directly in conflict with that which has been established by the Commonwealth in the de velopment of the subject of tho treatment of its insane. Gradually, during the past few years, the insane indigent inmates of county almshouses have been removed therefrom into State hospitals, for reasons that have recommended themselves to the approval of the most intelligent and experienced stu dents of the proper treatment of thl9 unfor tunate class. Humane add disinterested in vestigation of the condition of the insane in county almshouses, has abundantly proved that tho system of treatment In State insti tutions is vastly preferable to that of local cftre. As a result, there are now but 16 coun ties In the Stato where the chronic insane arc maintained in tho local almshouses, and it is undeniable that the average standard of care in this is far below that which is mani fested in the treatment of the inmates of Statu institutions. SoUcltnde For the Insane. "Three-fourths of the number of insane per sons for whom this bill provides are in four counties of the State. I am thoroughly con vinced that the bUl recently framed by tho Board of Public Charities and the Commit tee on Lunacy for a State asylum for the chronic insane, which lias also been enacted by the Legislature at its last session,, pro vides a much better system of treatment than that contemplated in tho bill under review. That act, to which I have given my approval, makes the present act wholly un necessary. The experience, not only oi our own Commonwealth, but of others in which the most advanced methods of treating the question of Stato management of the insane have been tested, has confirmed the wisdom of the plan of maintaining the incurable in Bane in the larger State institutions instead of in the county almshouses, and I am not willing to approve a measure which Involves a backward step." Where the Money Would Go. If the Governor had signed the indigent insane bill, Philadelphia would have been its principal beneflcia'ry, as it is accommo dating about 1,200 of these people in its in stitutions. As the bill allowed $1 25 a week for the care of tho indigent insane, that city would have received about $156,000 of the ap propriation of $190,000. A large bulk of tho remainder of the amount would have gone into the Allegheny County Treasury, and the rest of the State would have obtained very little of the appropriation. The Gov ernor does not give this as one of the rea sons for the disapproval of the bill, but tho fact is worth mentioning in connection with its fate. The bills acted on to-dav repre sent $1,030,860, of which amounts $341,SC0 were disapproved. The Governor to-day selected tho follow ing named as commissioners to select a sito for a chronic insane hospital and secure its erection: Wharton Barker and Henry M. Dechert, of Philadelphia; ex-Congre9sman John B. Storm, of Monroo countv; ex-Representative John M. Reynolds, of Bedford, and Dr. John Curwin, of Warren. Seven More BIUs "Vetoed. Seven more vetoes left the Governor's hands to-day. The appropriation of $64,000 for the Stato Hospital for injured persons of the anthracite coalfegions is approved, but the items for repairs to the wash and waiting rooms, for flooring and plastering the cellar, etc., amounting'in nil to $7,500, are vetoed. An appropriation of $20,000 for the erection of a hospital at Rochester, Beaver county, is disapproved, because the proposed site is not central. The item of $73,000 for the improvement and furnishing of a building for the Gvnecian Hospital, of Philadelphia, is vetoed because it was not approved by the Board of Chari ties. The Governor has approved the other two items of $40,000 for this institution. Appropriations Knocked Oat. An item of $15,000 is withheld from the ap propriation of "Women's Homeopathic Asso ciation of Pennsylvania, for tho completion of certain buUdings, because the Board of Charities did not recommend It. Two items of $23,000 and $380 respectively, for the Lack awanna Hospital at Scrantou, arb vetoed be cause the recommendations of the Board of Charities were disregarded. An item of $50,000 for the completion of tho hospital buildings of the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital at Philadelphia is disapproved because it Li not a State institution, nor under State con trol. J PEOPLE COMING AND GOING. Superintendent Patton, of the Hunting don Reformatory, spent yesterday with Warden Wright at the penitentiary. Ho was shown the prison from top to bottom, and the veteran manager gave him all the Iiointers he could. Mr. Patton said last even ng that Riverside was a vwell-kept institu tion. No change in the sjstem has been made at Huntingdon, and the new Superin tendent is following in the footsteps of Mayor McClaughrey, who is now bossing the Chicago police force. A. Bell and his son, Russell, of TJnion town, and D. W. II. Reynolds, a Cumberland lawyer,- registered at the Monongahela House last evening. Young Bell is one of tho candidates for the West Point cadetship in the Twentv-fourth district, and will be examined to-day. E. E. Bonneville, one of the clerks at the Anderson, left last evening for Fortress Monroe and Virginia Beach to spend his vacation, lsormy, as tne Doys can mm, is popular and deserves a rest. Lieutenant Palmer E. Pierce, IT. S. A., one of the Inst graduating class at West Point, is making, a short visit in tho city with friends hi the .East End before going to' his home in Iowa. H. A. Sumeley, K. L-. Sleeth and J. Montgomery, of the East End, went to Wheeling in a skiff on Saturday. They re turned yesterday by rail. J. B, Shepheard, of North Attleboro, Mass., is at the Anderson. Ho came here to buy machinery for a large woolen factory ho is building. President John "W. Egan, of the Chicago. St. Paul and Kausas City road, passed through tho city yesterday bound for Wash ington. Kev. Dr. Lester, of "West Alexandria, Eassed through the city last evening with is daughter bound for Clifton Springs. "Wilson K. Paxton, a former Pittsburg lawyer, but now in the Pennsylvania office at Washington, is visiting friends here. E. B. Coffroth. of Somerset, and Peter J. Hughes, a Philadelphia correspondent, were at the Seventh Avonue yesterday. John Gatz, a prominent Brookville lum berman, and wife were among the guests at the St. Charles yesterday. Miss Jones, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Evans and Mrs. Eliza Strain started on a European trip last rt-enlng. Colonel W. II. Eulings and Miss Bess Uulings took breakfast at tho Monongahela Houso yesterday. Ex-Governor Beaver arrived in the city at midnight, and registered at the Seventh Avenue Hotel. E. O. Emerson, of Oil .City, and T. D. Cassanaiie, of Ft. Wnyno, are stopping at the Anderson. George W. Boss, of Parkersburg, and H. H. Minor, of Unlontown, areattheDuquesne. 1". Klepctka, a Montana ranchman from Great Falls, ia stopping at the Schlosser. Miss Clarke, of Canonsburg, was among the passengers going East last evening. T. B. Casey, one of the penitentiary in spectors, went East last evening. Captain "W. "W. O'Neil left for Cincinnati last evening on coal business. C. C. Craft and wife, of Crafton, left for Boston. Every Section to- Its Custom. Kansas City btarj The extremity of politeness, has been at tained by New York Journalism, the Evening Fost pleasantly addressing the Tribune as, "Mendax." Out in Arizona the Jdcker would' call the Kipper plain "liar" and feel the bet-, tcr for'-it. SOCIETTS SUCCESSES. Tho First of a Week of Commencements and Other Entertainments. The twenty-first annual commencement exercises of Mont Ste. Ursule, Oakland, wero celebrated at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. In addition to the exercises closing this year's work in this celebrated school for yonng ladies it also marked an epoch in tho institution's eventful and useful life the completion of the first of the department, or day-school, for boys. The programme was most enjoyable, and COO visitors were in attendance in tho building, both to view the large exhibi tion or works of art paintings, drawings, needle work and embroidery, all exquisitely executed and to witnoss the exercises, which were as follows: Overture, Leonore (C. Merz), played on violin, harp, harmonillute, organ, pianos, gnltars and banjos by Misses Ronke, Marie, Martha Scaforth, Julia Murphy. Mary Hock ett, Alice Fettcrman, Blanche Ihmsen, Cora Bernadon, Helena Zoerb, Annie Keating, Gertrnde and Sadie Jolly, Nellie -Buckley, Gertrude McCaffrey. Bertha Bertalott. Mary Danlevy nnd Jnlla Collins; Mont Ste. Ursule Cadets, recitation. Masters William Rafferty, Albert Bertalott, Stephen Lanahan, Walter, Howard and Roger Dowling, William Con nelly, Georgo Esterly, ChnrtoM Murphy, Richard Law, Joseph Hoeveler, George Barnes, Edward Mlhm, Edwnrd Sieger, Florence Mnnsmann and Clarence Land; recitation, "Dickie's Breeches," by Dickie Low. Chorus, "Pleasant School Days Over" (Beardsley), by the cadets. Distribution of premiums. "Kronung's March" (Meyerbeer), on four pianos, by Misses Helena Zoerb, Martha Scaforth, Sophia Lingamnn and Annie Lanringcr. "Gruss An Den Rhein" (op. 9, Alovs, Hlnncs),on eight pianos, by Miss Edith "Keating, Camilla Brent, Minetta and Pauline Joyce, Delia Esterly, Mabel Buckley, Gertrude O'Leary, Katie Weixel, Mary Dunlevy, Mary SIcKeefrey, Gertrude Buckley. Catherine Vilsack, Edna Beuser, Edna Weixel, Mary O'Doherty and Mary AUiverti. Plenty of excellent Music. Then followed a chorus medley, junior vocal class, soloist, Marie Buckley; galop militairo (op. 117, Charles Mayer), on six pianos, by MIssc3 Edith -Keating, Camilla Brent, Katherine Vllsack,Gortrude Buckley, Mary McKcofrey, Kate Bcnnet, Bertha Ber talott, Gertrude McCaffrey, Katie Weixel, Delia Esterlv, Rose Laurent, Mary Dunlevy; vocal double quartet, "Moonlight Will Come Again" (W. L. Thompson), Misses Gertrude Jolly, Mary Mcehan, Mary Hack ett, Kate Coll, Annie Lanrlnger, Bertha Haueh, Alice Fetterman, Ellen Friel, soloist, Miss Gertrnde Jolly: miscellaneous exercise in gestures nnd bugle song, Jnnior elocution ary class; prologue, Miss Camilla Brent; Rhapsodie Hongroise (Liszt), on two pianos, by Misses Edith Keating, Camil la Brent, Minetta Jojce, Mary ODoherty; recitation Francalse, "Lafayette en Amer lque," Miss Marie Bruhl; ValseBrillante (op. 6 J. Schuloff), on eight pianos, by Misses Helena Zoerb, Sophie Lingumon, Martha Sea forth, Blanche Ihmsen, Alice Fetterman, MaryHackett, Annie Laurineer, Gertrude Jolly, Mary Mcehan, Ellen Friel, Rebecca Seaforth, Nellie Buckley, Mary Dunlevy, Mario Brnhl, Bertha Hauch, Flora Schafer; selections from different authors, senior elocutionary class; prologue. Miss Constance Keating; Salut a Pesth (H. Kowalski), on eight pianos. Misses Martha Sealorth, Ger trude Jolly, Sophie LIngamon,Mary Hackett, Mary Median, Anna Keating, Cora Berna don, Julia Murphy; instrumental solo, "Polo naise," F sharp minor (ChoDin), Miss Helena Zoerb; chorus, "Seel the Sun in Splendor Shining" (A. Zedler), by the school. The Howards for Merit. Merit was rewarded as follows, not includ ing the 65 decorations given for excellence in certain studies: Premium and crown of excellence, to Miss Clara Owens; music premium, grade I, first, Misses Sophie Llnga roan, Martha Seaforth and Gertrude Jolly; second, Miss Annie Keating; Grade II, first. Misses Rebecca Seaforth, Kittle Bernadon, CamiUa Brent, Edith Keating, AnnieTaurin ger;note reading and assiduity. Miss Julia Murphy and Miss Mary Median: Grade III, for application and exeoutlon, Misses Mary O'Dohertv and Kate Weixel; Grade IV, first, Misses Katherine Vilsack and Gertrude Bucklev; second, Misses Mary McKeefrey, Gertrude O'Leary, Delia Esterly and Cath erine Bennett; Grane V, application. Miss Mabel Buckley; Crowns for good conduct to Misses Lottie Cupps, Mary O'Doherty, Annie Gels, Effie Glon inger, Frances Fitzgibbons, Julia Murphy, Cora Bernadon, A. Fetterman, Martha Sea forth, Irene Low, Edith Schmidt. Rose Laurent, Mary AUiverti, Mary McKeefery and Annie Keating; crowns for good con duct and punctuality, Misses Camilla Brent, Mary Schmidt, Katie Weixel and Delia Esterly; crowns for order. Miss Katherine Bennett, -Miss Rebecca Seaforth, Miss B. Wells. A gold harp drawn by Miss Annie Lnuringer, presented by Mr. J. D. Buckley: silver medals, for application, awarded to Miss Annie Gels, presented by Mrs. J. Mc Caffrey, and to Miss Eftle Glonlrger; for good conduct, .awarded to Miss Gertrude McCaffrey, presented by Miss Annie Knorr; for punctuality, awarded to Miss Mary Dun levy, presented by a friend, to Miss Mary Median, presented by a friend, and to Miss Lottie Cupp.s, presented by a friend; for elo cution, awarded to Miss Camilla Brent, pre sented -by Miss C. Franenheim, a former pupil; gold medals: for elocution, awarded to Miss Constance Keating: for French, awarded to Miis Martha Sealorth; for Chris tian doctrine, awarded to Miss Nellie Buckley, presented by Miss M. Carr, a former pupil; Miss Cora Bernadon, presented by Miss A. Coll, a former pupil. For good conduct, ap- Ellcation and deportment, awarded to Miss Ian che Ihmsen, presented by Miss Mahon, a former pupil, and Miss Gertrude Jplly, pre sented by Miss Callery, a former pupil. Eight cadets received premium decorations. Bishop Phelan presided, and there were also present 16 of the clergy. Tho Bishop made an eloquent address to the graduates. Scteriutesdeut D. TnoMPSoir, of the Sec ond TJ. P. Sabbath School, Allegheny, was taken advantage of last evening by the teaohers and officers of tho school in a man ner that seriously embarrassed him for a tlmo. The gentleman wa lured to the church parlors on the committee meoting plan, an d, upon his arrival found about 50 teachers theio, arrayed in their holiday at tire and wearing smiles suggestive of every thing else but committee meetings. An im mense bonquet of fragrant roses, composed of composite parts and representing every lady in the school, was first presented to Mr. Thompson with the compliments of the day and wishes for many happy returns of the same. .About that tlmo it dawned upon the noted singer and superintendent that it was the first anniversary of his connection with the Sabbath school. Endeavoring to thank tho ladies, however, he was cut snort by ad ditional addresses of congratulation deliv ered bv various centlemen present. So Mr. Thompson quietly remained seated and en Joyed the showers of compliments with wnicn ne was spnnKicu, or rawer ueiugeu, and then was ushered off to strawberries and ice cream, altogether deciding it was lovely to be a Sunday school superintendent and have an anniversary. Thegay tonrists representing tho Woman's Club and The Travelers, who left the ciiy Friday at 12.50 for a Jaunt In the mountains, returned homo early Sunday morning, unan imous in the verdict that "everything was' lovely." Each individual woman who was a member of the party, and there were about 42, thus expresses herself. On thelrtrip tnoy occupied two private cars nnd through tho kindness of Mr. Walt were permitted to re 'main at Cresson a few hours, and then con tinue their Journey to Altoona witha special engine. At Altoona the Press Club of the city waited upon the ladies through a delegation, thinking that the Woman's Press Club, of nttsburg, was of the party, and considerable disappointment was felt when it was found it was not represented. Saturday was spent at Wopsonnonlc at the now horel, and a banquet was served the tourists In a beau tifully decoratad dining halL Thp bone of contention at Curry last even ing was the E. P. Roberts & Son gold medal for piano playing. Each contestant, by order of the faculty, performed "Movement .Per petual," op- 24, Von Weber, and bad in dividual selections also as lollows: "Reviel du Lion," Miss Jennie Clary; "Rippling Fantasia," Miss Hallle Deems; "Midnight Fantasia," Miss Blanche J. Lloyd; "Convent Bells," Miss Lulu nurlcy; "Caplco Hongrais," Miss Laura Josenhans; "Polo naise" op. 40, No. 1 Chopin, Miss Hattle Adams; "Rlgoletto Paraphrase," MlssIIattie Nichols; "Bobolink,"- Miss M. Belle Davis. The points of excellence considered by tho judges were: Technique, phassing, tempo, emotional and intellectual expressions. The Judges were Miss Annie Flower, Mr. Sam Brow n and Mark PowelL They awarded the medal to Miss Jennie Clary. Tholnstttue for the Blind gives its first annual entertainment on Thursday evening, the place being tho chapel of the First Pres byterian Church, Wood street. The pro gramme, which promises to be very inter ing, consists of choruses, instrumental pieces, recitations and a salutatory poem by pupils of tho school. Miss Jean Cowfln will Apeak the salutory, which very creditable poem is from the pen of Mrs. H. P. Jacobs, the talented wife of the school's superinten dent, and was written for the occasion. Tub Emory M. E. Church and Sunday school of the East End wiu picnic at Bock Point, Wednesday, July L CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. An English statistician estimates the world's indebtedness at $150,000,000,000. There are'in the United States 200,049.79 miles of railroad track of all descriptions, India, it is estimated, will produce 110, 0O1,0;o pounds of tea during the coming sea son. At Lowell, Ark, lightning struck and killed a 2-year-old baby at play in tho mother's arms. The mother was not hurt. There is said to be a Maypop farm in nonston county, Ga from which the pro prietor expects to realize a.prollt of several thousand dollars this year.' It is said that England has more women workers In proportion to her popu lation than any other country, 12 per,cent of tho Industrial classes being women. A Connecticut hunter shot up into a tree at what he thought to bean empty crow's nest, nnd was very much surprised when u 25-pound coon came crashing through the branches. A mule in Anstell, Ga., is said to be so old that its ago has been forgotten. It it put, however, at about SOvears. It served in the Rebellion and in 18C2. on account -of advanced age, was turned out to die. A large horned snake was killed near Danidsville, Ga., by Lewis Candler, a few days ago. It measured 5 feet and 3 inches In length. This makes tho second horned snake killed there within a week. The bite of this snake is fatal. A turtle four feet across the back has been located in Current river, Mo., for 50 years. Tho other day a hunter shot It be tween the eyes, but the ball glanced off and embeUded itself In a tree, whilo tho turtle swam placidly Into deep water. A Btory comes from Lander Wyo., that an unknown hnnter was killed 'by a silver tip bear, the hunter also killing the bear. The bodies of the bear and man were locked together li a death grip. The bear was: killed by knife thrusts, whilo tho man was crushed: to death by the silver-tip's powerfnl and fatal hug. John Anderson, of Hastain, Mo., re cently removed three hard, flinty stones' from a gathering back of the lower Jaw of a fine mare which he purchased in Kansas last spring. The largest of the stones measures lH3i inches, and tho other two about one half that size. Tho gathering commenced two years ago. The town clerk of Posen, Presque Isle county, Mich., has filed a curious bill of salo for one live oak 19 feet in circumference and one small white oak tree two feet in diam eter growing out of the roots of tho parent tree, and commonly known as tho "Baby Oak." The oak grows 230 miles from the "Po tion to which the oak Is indigenous, and how the seed got there is a mystery. A little oblong steel box, opening with combination lock, passed through the Chi cago Custom House the other morning, con signed to a.l Illinois watch company. This insignificant-looking affair contained d a monds and rubies by the hundred, that were intended for settings for watches. Tho value of the stones was placed at $150,000, and the duty on them wns a small fortune. The goods were delivered by a special mes senger. While plowing his corn, Will Evans, of Kennet, Mo., plowed up a largo kettle, made of stone, containing, he thinks, about 30 pounds of Indian beads. In some respects tho bends seem to have been made of shells, but those who have examined the snb jstnnce closely say they are made of stone. They are of aU sizes, the largest being about the size of a half-dollar silver piece, and the smaller abont the size of a dime or smaller. Some idea of the extent .to which bet ting has obtained root in France may bo formed by tne returns of the Pari-Mntuel at Longchamps on Sundjiy. Tho total amount of the bets registered came to within a triflo of X 120,000, of which about half was on tho raoe for the Grand Prix. Perhaps the most sumificant fact connected with these statls- ' tics is that 40,000 was staked by the humble cmss uii me course, niiu vmy puy 1 iranu gate money. These figures are, of course, en tirely independent of the transactions of tho bookmakers in and out of the ring. The Bussian Grand Duke Sergius is said to be profoundly devout in manners. If he happens upon an image of reputed sanctity he will prostrate'himself before it. If there are relics of some old eccleslasclc of bygone generations he will not bo happy till he kisses them. If there is a shrine whero pilgrim's gather, there he must also worship. And the lady (almost an English princess, since the granddaughter of the Queen), to whom he is married has had to learn to ac commodate herself to his tastes. Long though she stood out, the end was Inevitable. And she likewise has to assume a devotional attitude before the pictures, crosses and old bones and corpses that aro so gratifying to her husband. Messrs. E. "Withy & Co., of Hartlepool, launched from their yard, at Mlddleton, Hartlepool, a line steel steamship of novel construction. She was built to tho order of Mr. E. B. Stoker, of London, and is a hand some cargo vessel of 30.) feet length, buUt of Siemens-Martin steel, and will take the high est class in the Bureau Veritas International Register. In order to make her as far as possible nnsinkable, the man nnd fore holds are divided by nn iron water-tight bulkhead, efficiently stiffened by iron grain divisions, nnil should she be damaged by collision, it is hoped that the pumping arrangements will save her from sinking. She I- on tho web frame principle, most of her plates be ing 22 feet in length, for extra strength. The most precious wine in the world is that contained ma cask named the "Rose" in the Bremen Town Hall cellars. It is Eu deshelm Rhine wine from tho yearlC53, and the cask is replended by degrees, whenever wine is drawn, with carefully washed and dried graveL The wine has at present tho color of dark beer, and a very hard taste, but an indescribable aroma. It is never sold, but destined exclusively for the sick of Bre men, who receive a very small quantity on the production of a doctor's certificate. In the year 1C53 a stack had tho value of 300 gold dollars (a gold dollar equals 98 marks). At present the supposed valueof this unique wine has so increased that a bottle (con taining eight glumes) would cost 18,000,00 marks, a glassful 2,000,000, and a drop 2,313 marks. The following singular will case come3 from Hamburg. Some years ago there died in Schleswlg, Germany, a Government official named Nielsen. Somo little time be fore he died Nielsen bequeathed to his man servant 20,000 crowns, and to his cook alike Bum, on the condition that If either of them married the fortune should revert to tha other. AS soon as the old gentleman died, however, the happy possessors of this for tune went to the altar and were married. The conplo then took up their residence in Hamburg, where they have resided for tho Bast six years. Recently thero arrived from openbagen a relative of Herr Nielsen, who by their marriage considered the spirit of his relations last will and testament had been departed from, and demanded the res titution of 40,000 crowns. The mutter is now before a court of law. SOME SMALL SMILES. "Mamma," said a bright little girl, "Ma Jones down at the corner doesn't have to put f that about dally bread when he says his prajrers." Why not, my deaif" Because he's a baker." Washington Pott. Mr. Ann There is one thing that I like about your place OTer In New Jersey. West Field What is that? 9 Mr. Ann-there is a train back every 23 minutes. Hew Tork Herald. "I see by a scientific paper," said the star boarder, lhatbutter Is very sustaining." "Yes." murmured Daggltt, "this ought to hold up a20-pound dumb-bell." Heto Tork lelearam. A nuisance 'tis, ah, who can tell t Of others naif as bad, Thai story which starts in so well And winds up as an "ad." WasMnaUm Pott. A drummer in a Grand Bapids merchant" store was making some inquiries about his business. 'You run the establishment alone, I notice, " u began. "Yep." "Anybody in with you?" "Yep." "His name doesn't appear on your sign?" Nope." "Abl A silent partner?" "Notmueh! It's my wife." Detroit FrtePnst. Jospar There are men in the world who argue that electricity is life. Mrs. Jaipar Then It is no wonder that so many men lire shocking llTes. Sew Tork Hintd. "Chollie can't get over his old drygoods habits now that he'a In real estete." What has he done now?" "Sold a man a house tbe other day and asked bim If hi wanted It feat. " lurunto JiaiL I r :S,A 34i &'SiJ&i&JSi &!'
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